slowly but surely...

So our recent saga is getting Jake onboard with real food.  He seems to have transitioned perfectly to a milk bottle and no reactions from what i can tell (score! he didn't get that one from me).  He can eat great.  His favorites that he will stuff his cheeks full of until his tray is empty are: bread, cheerios, crackers, waffles, cheese.  Seeing a pattern here?  Like, zero fruits/veggies and only carby bread stuffs??  Yeah, me too.  My only guess is that Jake is a texture-sensitive kid cause he loved veggie/fruit pureed baby food no problem, but cut them into lil bits and he hardly will touch them.  Maybe he doesn't like them cause they're cold, wet, slimey, or that they don't break apart as easily in your mouth as bread.  Maybe it's normal for kids to resist, but it sure makes meal times suck.  I give him something he likes and something he doesn't but that I want him to eat.  I'll still put lil pieces on his tray for him to play with/experiment with etc but if I wait for him to eat those things on his own, it's not happening.  Then I chop up the fruit/veggies really well and spoon feed it to him.  He fights it, tries to spit it out, and cries, but after 20 min he realizes that we're not backing down and then he at least voluntarily opens his mouth for the spoon.  It's hard and frustrating.  I just hope he'll get more comfortable with these textures and gain an appetite for them.

In other funner news,
We went out on a date saturday night (it's been a really long time since we've had a date night sans jake).  We went to the temple cause it has been WAY too long, and then out to chik-fil-a and RED2.  It was ok (RED2-obviously not talking about chik-fil-a cause that's always good).  I would honestly give it a B- and I only give it that good of a score cause I liked the first one so much so I feel loyal to it.  It just felt rushed, like they were trying too hard to up the humor and action when they didn't need to.  I hate how hollywood is like that-who says the sequel has to be funnier/better etc?  If the first was a hit-it's not broke so don't fix it.  It was still fun to be out and about and I'm excited for Ender's game.

Also, this saturday is the free football scrimmage put on by BYU-can't wait!  Love me some football :)